Understanding Primary Care Physicians' Treatment of Chronic Low ...

Measures – Pain Attitudes
• Positive attitude toward opioids (3 items)
– “Opioids are underused in treatment of chronic nonmalignant
pain”
– Cronbach’s alpha=.60
• Negative attitude toward treating pain (2 items)
– “I do not look forward to managing patients with chronic pain
problems”
– Cronbach’s alpha=.59
• “There is always a physical cause for chronic pain
even if doctors cannot diagnose it.
”
– Endorsed (4,5 / 5) by 13%